Text by Alison Kahn and Photographs by Peggy Fox with an introduction by Robert Coles

"To Alison Kahn and Peggy Fox, for giving us Patapsco, we owe gratitude for a splendid, observing effort exceedingly well done, but also for the compelling summons they tender us. Through meeting Marylanders in a valley, we get a boost toward ourselves — our similar journey through time and space in America." Robert Coles, from the Foreword

Poems & Stories by Gary Blankenburg & photographs by Peggy Fox

Softcover, 114 pages. ISBN: 0-940475-49-9 Dolphin Moon Press 2005

No crowds of people go to Ethiopia. I think that’s why I loved it.

We celebrated Timkat, the new year baptism/ celebration in Adis Ababba

The three places that were most interesting to me, because they represent three very different cultures, were the Animists, tribal, in the south,the Muslims in the east, and the Christians pretty much everywhere else, (the first African Christian nation; remember Prester John).

For years I did assignment work primarily for schools and hospitals, approaching these assignments with an editorial slant, using black & white tri-x film and printing all images in house. During this time I photographed constantly, whether on assignment or not, looking for images that told a story. Baltimore was just then going through massive renewal, with the ethnic eastern European, and seamen population starting to be replaced with hipsters, artists, and young urban homesteaders. I enjoyed the clash, photographing around the city in an attempt to catch the decisive moment.